banneryear1868 @ banneryear1868 @lemmy.world

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Do you eat food from your hands after using the washroom and/or showering?

Sounds gross but as long as it isn't with dishes and the dishwasher works right why would it be a problem? Soap is soap.

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We're Not So Different

Chapo (Hell of Presidents and Hell on Earth)

It's funny how sometimes people try to argue or debate when I say I use Windows to run Ableton or something, like I'm trying to use Windows and making up excuses. My gaming + media creation desktop is a stripped down Windows install cause it just works for that. I also run Linux on everything else and have been a mixed environment sysadmin for like 15 years. Windows Enterprise and massgravel, drivers, Chris Titus Tech's tool, usable Winblows install in under an hour with active time maybe 20-30 minutes.

Makes sense to go simplest as possible on a home pc and even home sever. More important with raid and production capacity planning or enterprise stuff.

They've been rolling out similar stuff at my employer and I'm very mixed on it, but I try and participate and add input where I can since it's an opportunity for that. It's ultimately an HR initiative and meant to benefit the employer, sometimes in more nefarious ways than others. I'm in a union which I consider more important when it comes to my interests as an employee, as well as disability/discrimination law and your rights in that regard.

I read Neurotribes recently for a book club which is basically a book on autism from a very tech-industry point of view, the idea that autism is valuable and even sought out by tech employers is a big part of the thesis. We shared praise and concerns for this notion in the discussion, especially when it comes to the degree of exploitation involved, and the assumptions that someone being autistic would necessarily make them a good boss, or that they would be getting paid what they deserve (less adept at social skills and co-morbidities = less ability to negotiate fair compensation?)

The economic arrangement and inherent conflict of interest between employers and employees is always a wedge. Certain conditions are being commodified under the "neurodiverse" slogan, and often that allows the employer to contribute to their brand more than it benefits employees. I always separate the EDI-branded notions of these conditions and the topics from the actual meaning of them, because a lot of times they're more appropriated by the diversity industry in ways that benefit employers more than employees. If it trickles down to employees in good ways then that's the best case scenario, but given the current political climate I'm super skeptical this type of corporate EDI branding will last as long as I need to work to get my pension.

Yeah used DE since my grandpa gave me one of his when I was like 13, his father was a barber by trade and I also have his straight razor collection (which I don't use).

Actually use a mix of DE, disposable, and electric, depending on the purpose. The Philips oneblade and classic Andis foil for face and jawline with finishing DE touch on flat areas sometimes. I know electric on face... used to have acne too but I find they keep my skin barrier more intact by barely not getting to the skin.

I legit use the double edge on d+bs more than anything... sounds like a bad idea I know but for me it's the easiest, quickest, far superior result, and way less injury than any other method. You maybe wouldn't think this but going on every 3-5 days for like 10 years at this point so I'm completely confident in it. An electric with shortest attachment for pubes and around the edges, then the DE on genitals, nothing better.

Ywss the silent majority. Much prefer to sit at home, got my soft seat and toilet space all nice, little light reading. It's just classy.

Makes sense, 16GB is sort of the new "normal" although 8GB is still quite enough for everyday casual use. "AI PCs" being a marketing term just like "AI" itself.

People will choose a workplace in which they have greater control, over one with nicer accommodations.

I find with ADHD I can focus a lot better from home but get a lot of motivation through social feedback, so the current hybrid arrangement tends to be a happy medium.

Happened with someone's audio once, for some reason the sound of him pissing and sighing in satisfaction wasn't getting filtered out. I just sat there wondering why nobody was muting him yet couldn't bring myself to do it because of how funny and awkward it was.

Yeah there's a huge mistake in assuming everyone is some politically engaged online person, most people live their lives and experience politics though media. They saw the media and people freaking out over Trump from the start, yet they experienced little to nothing during his Presidency that negatively impacted their lives in contrast.

Barbara Fields' full interview about the civil war clears up a lot of this "it's about slavery" nonsense. Some of the stories and correspondence she reads from former slaves are incredibly powerful, I shared my favorite below. The central point she makes throughout the interview:

“it was the battle for emancipation and the people who pushed it forward… it was they who ennobled what otherwise would have been meaningless carnage into something higher. When a black solder in New Orleans said “liberty must take the day nothing shorter” he said in effect that when we count out those who have died and survey the carnage is must be for something higher than Union and free navigation of the Mississippi River”

Spotswood Rice, a former slave, writes to Kittey Diggs, 1864:

I received a letter from Cariline telling me that you say I tried to steal, to plunder, my child away from you. Not I want you to understand that Mary is my Child and she is a God-given rite of my own. And you may hold on to her as long as you can. But I want you to remember this one thing, that the longer you keep my Child from me the longer you will have to burn in hell and the quicker you’ll get there. For we are now making up about one thousand black troops to come up through, and want to come through, Glasgow. And when we come woe be to Copperhood rebels and to the Slaveholding rebels. For we don’t expect to leave them there. Root nor branch. But we think however that we (that have children in the hands of you devils), we will try you the day that we enter Glasgow. I want you to understand Kittey Diggs that where ever you and I meet we are enemies to each other. I offered once to pay you forty dollars for my own Child but I am glad now that you did not accept it. Just hold on now as long as you can and the worse it will be for you. You never in your life before I came down here did you give children anything, not anything whatever, not even a dollars worth of expenses. Now you call my children your property. Not so with me. My children is my own and I expect to get them. And when I get ready to come after Mary I will have both a power and authority to bring her away and to exact vengeance on them that holds my Child. You will then know how to talk to me. I will assure that. And you will know how to talk right too. I want you now to just hold on; to hear if you want to. If your conscience tells that’s the road, go that road and what it will bring you to Kittey Diggs. I have no fears about getting Mary out of your hands. This whole Government gives cheer to me and you cannot help yourself.

(It’s not known if Spotswood had a showdown with Kittey but there are property records indicating he lived with Mary and his wife after the war.)

Trump giving her shit for this is kind of hilarious.

"Religious suffering is the expression of real suffering and also a protest against it. Religion is the opium of the masses. Religion is the heart of a heatless world. Religion is the soul of soulless conditions."

Religion isn't a separate thing from culture that can be cleaved off like this. The form it takes is contingent on conditions of people's lives and power structures. People also don't make a conscious choice to believe or disbelieve in religion, if you're an atheist you can't just willingly choose to believe. Society is not directed by the willful actions of people's collective beliefs like this either, it's more a Darwinian process.

Also civil religion is a thing and it doesn't necessarily align with what people think of "religion" but operates in a very similar way. A lot of atheists are probably adherents to aspects of civil religion without knowing or thinking of it this way.

While US sponsored military committed atrocities in Afghanistan it served their overall goal to avoid it as much as possible. We have plenty of examples where that wasn't the case, but generally the US prefers to arm counter-revolutionaries and fascists to do what they do.

It is my intention to suggest that Americans, including many historians, tend to accord race a transhistorical, almost metaphysical, status that removes it from all possibility of analysis and understanding. Ideologies, including those of race, can be properly analyzed only at a safe distance from their terrain. To assume, by intention or default: that race is a phenomenon outside history, is to take a position within the terrain of racialist ideology and to become its unknowing -and therefore uncontesting- victim. (Barbara Fields, Ideology and Race in American History)

Biden was hoping this would be one and done, but the longer it goes on the more it threatens the election. Sad that it has to work this way.

That said the sentiment that, "geez this is really bad for Palestinians Biden's polling," that dominates a lot of the US-centric media and political discourse is pretty disgusting. It always seems to be the case that now is always the worst time to act against war in any way.

This is what I do I sit on you, sit on you, sit on you